00:00Jeremy Fowler is our guest of ESPN.
00:02Jeremy, in NFL circles, are the Bengals viewed as a contender again?
00:06They've missed the playoffs three straight years.
00:09They make this big swing for Dexter Lawrence.
00:11Obviously, you mentioned Joe Burrow and the skill guys that they have.
00:14Are they viewed that way?
00:18They are viewed as, in a wide-open AFC North, a contender.
00:22If you can get out of that division and you can just get in the dance,
00:26they're viewed as a team still like they were three or four years ago
00:29where anything's possible, right?
00:31You've seen the games they played against Kansas City
00:33when KC was in their prime.
00:38It's one of those things where even when they lost,
00:40it felt like they probably should have won
00:42or they dropped the ball or a play away from winning.
00:46That element there still exists.
00:50It's tough, though, because winning is infectious
00:52and losing is infectious, too, a little bit.
00:55So you can't just assume that year to year you're going to be able to bounce back.
01:00But this league is built on parity.
01:02If you've had some down years, as long as you are building the roster the right way
01:06and have enough personnel, it can flip from seven wins to 11 wins pretty quickly.
01:11I mean, you see that league-wide.
01:12So you're going to bounce back.
01:12So you're going to bounce back.
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